Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family Contributor(s): Murray, Pauli (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807073172 ISBN-13: 9780807073179 Publisher: Beacon Press
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Slavery |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: (0.81 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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Publisher Description: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history. |
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